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Germantown Symphony Orchestra presents Scheherazade & the Bruch Violin Concerto featuring violinist Marta Szlubowska

WHO:                   Germantown Symphony Orchestra 

WHAT:                Scheherazade & the Bruch Violin Concerto featuring violinist Marta Szlubowska.  Arrive early and enjoy an outstanding performance by the Germantown High School String Orchestra in the GPAC lobby directed by GSO violinist Alex Perry.  
                                                                             
WHEN:                Saturday, May 6, 2017 at 7:00 p.m.

TICKETS:             $15 Adults, $8 Seniors (plus handling fee).  Students may attend for free and should order tickets in advance

WHERE:               Duncan-Williams Performance Hall, GPAC 

CONTACT:           Ann Pretzer, ann.pretzer@gmail.com, 901.371.7491
Diane Coons, diane.coons@ipaper.com, 901.419.7863

WEB:                    http://www.germantownsymphony.org, http://www.GPACweb.com
                               

The Germantown Symphony Orchestra presents Scheherazade & the Bruch Violin Concerto on Saturday, May 6 at 7 p.m. at the Duncan-Williams Performance Hall at GPAC.  Violinist Marta Szlubowska, the GSO’s featured guest artist, will give a passionate performance of Bruch's Violin Concerto in G Minor which is one of the most well-loved violin concertos in the repertoire.  Ms. Szlubowska is the Concertmistress of the Mississippi Symphony Orchestra in Jackson, MS, the position she has held since 2004, and is a highly acclaimed soloist, recitalist, chamber musician and teacher. 

A native of Warsaw, Poland, Ms. Szlubowska gave her first public performance at the age of seven at the Warsaw Philharmonic Hall.  At thirteen, she was chosen to represent Poland on a tour to Great Britain, performing as a soloist with the Szymanowski Liceum Orchestra.  In 1983, she came to the US to study at the Peabody Conservatory of Music, where she received Bachelor of Music and an Artist's Diploma performance degrees. She received her Master's in Violin Performance from the University of
Massachusetts at Amherst under the mentorship of Professor Charles Treger.

A winner of numerous awards and prizes in Europe and the US, Ms. Szlubowska has appeared as a soloist with the Mississippi Symphony, North Carolina Symphony, Tacoma Symphony, and many others. In 2009, Ms. Szlubowska toured Hungary, Austria and Czech Republic performing as a soloist and as part of the Duo Vivace (two violins) with her daughter, Julia Kirk. She has given numerous performances at many music festivals around the US such as Tanglewood and Colorado Music Festivals. Ms. Szlubowska has also served on the faculty of the Eastern Music Festival as well as the Marrowstone Music Festival. She has performed under the baton of Leonard Bernstein and Seiji Ozawa at Tanglewood, and Alexander Schneider at Carnegie Hall and the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
Ms. Szlubowska is currently on the faculty of the Millsaps College (as a member of the Mississippi Fine Arts String Trio, the Trio-in-Residence) and the Millsaps Conservatory of Music in Jackson, MS.
Dr. Ronald Vernon, the GSO’s Music Director, shared that, "Mara Slubowska thrilled the GSO and its audience with a commanding performance of Saint Saens's Violin Concerto in B minor in 2012, and we look forward to hearing her again in one of the most beautiful and romantic concertos for violin and orchestra."  The concert also includes Overture to Donna Diana by Emil von Reznicek and Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade which will feature GSO President and Co-Concertmaster, Ann Pretzer, performing the very melodic violin solos throughout this mesmerizing work.   Arrive early and enjoy an outstanding performance by the Germantown High School String Orchestra in the GPAC lobby directed by GSO violinist Alex Perry.  

The GSO is now in its 41st season, is one of the finest community orchestras performing in the United States today, and is the community orchestra in residence at GPAC.  It is funded in part by a grant from the GPAC Arts Education Fund.  Tickets are available online at GPACweb.com or by calling the GPAC Box Office at 901.751.7500.  The GSO is offering free tickets for students and which should be ordered in advance.

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